If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!

hey do you want to know about my secret wip book ok good

let's play a little game: what is your single most-anticipated book of 2026 that you have not yet seen on any other most anticipated lists?

I agree with this. Pretty much everyone on every platform is crashing out right now. The best thing you can do right now is be really intentional and focused about how you spend your time here and elsewhere online and find meaningful offline things to do with your time and energy.

I can say with 1000% certainty that no one, NO ONE, with any credibility or social cache should be SENDING anyone to X. I’m talking about on websites, in linktrees, in speeches, and/or in videos.

Here is my award eligibility for 2025! Now in a tidier version and one that hopefully has everything: stories, poems, a book, some miscellanea... www.patreon.com/posts/2025-a...

The farther we get into 2026, the more I'm endorsing folks to learn the mod tools on the social medias they use and apply them aggressively. Yes, it's stupid to have to lock replies to a post saying "I don't really like pancakes" to followers only and turn off quote posts, but...people are wild.

re: LRT what if I got even MORE annoying about SFF awards?

u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.

2026 is going to be the year I get publishers (besides Tor, who love me, MWAH to them) to take me seriously on Netgalley and get my feedback ratio above 80% now that I know how feedback ratios work. 😅

okay open call, if you have an SFF romance coming out in 2026, and it's not grindingly heteropatriarchal in outlook and values, please tell me about it! I'm compiling my reading lists!

As the deadline to register for WSFS membership approaches (January 31), it's a great time to toss in some recs of art you loved from 2025! #HugoAwards

Is this how I lure my bestie into the fandom? Using Firefly-based memes like dangling shrimp in front of a feral cat? Let's see!

I know this is extremely tangential to the LIST OF REASONS WHY PEOPLE SHOULD NOT USE SUBSTACK But one of them is that even when you use your own domain with them, when someone shares a link from the Substack app, it points to Substack instead of your name/brand They don’t respect you, the user!!

As the deadline to register for WSFS membership approaches (January 31), it's a great time to toss in some recs of art you loved from 2025! #HugoAwards

repost to give those 2 or 3 followers who always like your weird posts a little forehead kiss & a grilled cheese cut diagonally

Seconded. This wonderful newsletter's been making my Fridays a little brighter since 2016, introducing me to so many fics and fandoms I might never have discovered on my own. Happy Anniversary Elizabeth and Gav!

THE RAVEN SCHOLAR has me in an absolute chokehold, what an incredibly well-paced jewel of a book, I love the feeling of looking at the 400 remaining pages & feeling the anticipatory loss of it coming to an end

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

I reread this review of A Drop of Corruption and I WILL be stealing the phrase "quasimagical biotechnology" for my Obsidian book log to apply to all the weird plant/body horror stuff coming out of SFF.

More than anything, just tell the creators of things you like that you Iike them! Leave comments, click like, share, all that stuff. It’s fuel for creatives.

Happy Saturday! It’s the first Wombling Along of the year with a bumper set of people looking back at the year, reviews and other online articles I saw this week! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12...

kind of wild that in the span of like 20 years we've circled all the way back around to "get a film camera and never post any photos of yourself or anyone else really online ever" being the most reasonable position

Artists, if you use the alt text option to write “image”, I will mute you and never see your work again. Either use alt text or don’t, but don’t bait people who need accessibility tools.

setting an intention for SFF publishers in 2026 that they will put a "previously on" page at the front of the book when they are publishing sequels IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR TOLKIEN IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU

Happy 10th anniversary to The Rec Center! My fannish life has been greatly enriched by this newsletter from @elizabethminkel.bsky.social and @gavia.bsky.social! Thank you both for such a labor of love for fandom and fan culture.

I’m frozen with indecision over what my first book of 2026 should be. 😅 There’s so many good choices.

I think this might actually be my favourite "easter egg" thing I've read about Heated Rivalry? There was so much care and attention put into so many "little" choices. www.tumblr.com/coeur-de-coe...

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! Maybe put some guard rails on your TBR lists. :)

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! Maybe put some guard rails on your TBR lists. :)

anyway, thank you for giving us this, NYC. Because it matters! It matters that we get this hope, it matters that we get to see what he can do. it matters that he proved you can run the kind of campaign he did, and win. y'all worked so hard to give us that! 💓

oh damn

Not me seriously considering getting a personal pizza from my favorite pizza place for every ten books I read. And yet...

If you're a writer or other creator with a stack of unread nonfiction you bought for research, my Worldbuilder's Book Club reading challenge is back for 2026 with twelve prompts to help you deepen different aspects of your created worlds! (StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

Anyway Happy New Year. Here's to a 2026 with more peace, love and justice. On my end, I'll commit to more weird fangirl shenanigans.

Gonna head outside at midnight because I want my face to be the last thing 2025 sees before it dies.

Quote with a GIF that depicts the energy you’re going into 2026 with.

My 2025 reading roundup is now up! Come for the stats and graphs, stay for the silly awards (or possibly vice versa).

It’s the end of 2025, which means it’s time for me to talk about my favorite books of the year! buttondown.com/singinglight...

The deadline for BSFA nominations is at midnight tonight, so just putting this out as a reminder to any BSFA members out there...

The next Murderbot book, Platform Decay, is also available in the Barnes & Noble preorder sale: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/platform-d... #booksky

there's so much stuff I want to put in the first 2026 issue of IGMX that I'm going to have to make hard choices 😅

Do you Recall the Time Before the Breaking of the Ring of Sun #berensart2025

Agnes LOVES to chase her own tail

Today at Nerds I have my review of Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman. It’s just a snapshot, with a few of the things I thought are notable about it, because there’s no way I could compress the full scope of my enjoyment into 1500 words or so. You’ll just have to read the book for that.

people do not discuss the raven tower enough, one of the greatest books

My only resolution for 2026